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US7815702B2
US7815702B2 US11/664,410 US66441005A US7815702B2 US 7815702 B2 US7815702 B2 US 7815702B2 US 66441005 A US66441005 A US 66441005A US 7815702 B2 US7815702 B2 US 7815702B2
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Hyoung Joo Cho
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L9/00—Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
    • A47L9/10—Filters; Dust separators; Dust removal; Automatic exchange of filters
    • A47L9/16—Arrangement or disposition of cyclones or other devices with centrifugal action
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01D—SEPARATION
    • B01D45/00—Separating dispersed particles from gases or vapours by gravity, inertia, or centrifugal forces
    • B01D45/12—Separating dispersed particles from gases or vapours by gravity, inertia, or centrifugal forces by centrifugal forces
    • B01D45/16—Separating dispersed particles from gases or vapours by gravity, inertia, or centrifugal forces by centrifugal forces generated by the winding course of the gas stream, the centrifugal forces being generated solely or partly by mechanical means, e.g. fixed swirl vanes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L9/00—Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
    • A47L9/10—Filters; Dust separators; Dust removal; Automatic exchange of filters
    • A47L9/16—Arrangement or disposition of cyclones or other devices with centrifugal action
    • A47L9/1616—Multiple arrangement thereof
    • A47L9/1625—Multiple arrangement thereof for series flow
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L9/00—Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
    • A47L9/10—Filters; Dust separators; Dust removal; Automatic exchange of filters
    • A47L9/16—Arrangement or disposition of cyclones or other devices with centrifugal action
    • A47L9/1616—Multiple arrangement thereof
    • A47L9/1641—Multiple arrangement thereof for parallel flow
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B04—CENTRIFUGAL APPARATUS OR MACHINES FOR CARRYING-OUT PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES
    • B04C—APPARATUS USING FREE VORTEX FLOW, e.g. CYCLONES
    • B04C5/00—Apparatus in which the axial direction of the vortex is reversed
    • B04C5/24—Multiple arrangement thereof
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • the present invention relates to a multi cyclone collector, and more particularly, to, of a first cyclone collector for separating dust firstly and a plurality of second cyclone collectors for separating the dust secondly, an arrangement of the plurality of second cyclone collectors.
  • a cyclone collector is a device for collecting dust particle (hereinafter, referred to as “dust”) contained in air using a cyclone principle, and normally applied to a vacuum cleaner.
  • a multi cyclone collector having a plurality of cyclone collectors connected thereto is used for increasing collecting efficiency.
  • An example of the multi cyclone collector is in a Japanese laid open utility model NO. S52-14775.
  • the multi cyclone collector includes a cyclone (hereinafter, referred to as “a first cyclone collector 1 ”) for collecting dust being relatively large in size by sucking up contaminated air from outside, and a cyclone (hereinafter, referred to as “a second cyclone collector 3 ”) connected with the first cyclone collector 1 to collect dust being relatively small in size.
  • the plurality of second cyclone collectors 3 in the multi cyclone collector is a collection of a plurality of small cyclones, which will be described in more detail as follows.
  • the first cyclone collector 1 includes a first inlet 11 , a first body 12 , and a first outlet 14 .
  • the first inlet 11 is connected with a circumferential surface of the first body 12 such that outside air is flowed there into in a tangential direction
  • the first outlet 14 is provided at about a central portion in the first body 12 along a perpendicular direction.
  • the first outlet 14 provided at about the central portion in the first body 12 plays a role of discharging air into the second cyclone collector 3 , the air from which dust are filtered.
  • the first outlet 14 is formed in a cylindrical shape, a bottom 14 b is opened, and a circumference of a top 14 a is closed.
  • a filter 16 is provided at an opening of the bottom 14 b as shown in FIG. 2 which is appended.
  • the second cyclone collector 3 is a plurality of small cyclones provided in a circular arrangement along a circumference of the first body 14 included in the first cyclone collector 1 .
  • the second cyclone collector 3 includes a second body 32 , a second inlet 31 , and a second outlet 34 .
  • the second body 32 is formed in a conic shape which is narrowed down toward a bottom thereof, and a collecting container 4 provided at a lower part of the second cyclone collector 3 for collecting dust separated from the air flowing in the second body 32 .
  • the collecting container 4 is a pipe formed in a circular shape when seen from a plain view, and communicated with each of the second cyclone collector 3 so as to be used with the second cyclone collector 3 .
  • a buffering chamber 56 is formed between the first cyclone collector 1 and the second cyclone collector 3 such that air from the first cyclone collector 1 is passed through the buffering chamber 56 and flowed into the second cyclone collector 3 .
  • a discharging chamber 52 communicated with the second outlet 14 is provided at an upper part of the second cyclone collector 3 , and air is passed through the discharging chamber 52 and discharged through a discharging pipe 54 .
  • a drawing reference number 5 which is unexplained indicates a case for accommodating the first cyclone collector 1 and the second cyclone collector 3 .
  • the conventional multi cyclone collector When the multi cyclone collector is operated and, for example, a suction fan (not shown) of a vacuum cleaner is driven, contaminated outside air is flowed into a first cyclone collector 1 through a first inlet 11 of the first cyclone dust collector 1 .
  • the contaminated air flowed in is flowed in along a tangential direction to the first cyclone collector, and circulated along an inner wall of a first body 12 of the first cyclone collector 1 . In this process, air and dust are separated from each other by a centrifugal force.
  • air including minute dust and discharged from the first cyclone collector 1 is flowed respectively into each of the second body 32 through the second inlet 31 , the second body 32 including the second cyclone collectors 3 .
  • the minute dust are separated once again in the second cyclone collectors 3 , and purified air is sequentially passed through a second outlet 34 , a discharging chamber 52 , and a discharging pipe 54 and then discharged to an outside thereof.
  • minute dust separated from air while passing through the inside of the second body 32 of the second cyclone collector 3 are fallen to a lower part of the second body 32 and then collected in the collecting container 4 provided at a lower part of the second cyclone collector 3 .
  • a total size of the conventional multi cyclone collector mentioned above is however limited because a space for installing the multi cyclone collector is limited in a vacuum cleaner. Therefore, the number of the second cyclone collector 3 also needs to be limited.
  • the second cyclone collector 3 is disposed in a circular shape along an outer circumference of the first cyclone collector 1 .
  • the conventional multi cyclone collector is formed in circular shape if seen in a plain view.
  • Inner space of a vacuum cleaner having a conventional multi cyclone collector is formed in a many sided shape having predetermined edges, and a case 5 is also formed in a many sided shape to be provided in the space.
  • the edge portion in the case 5 exists only as an empty space, thereby raising a problem of space waste.
  • the present invention is directed to a multi cyclone collector that substantially obviates one or more problems due to limitations and disadvantages of the related art.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a multi cyclone collector with an improved structure for enabling to provide a maximum number of second cyclone collectors by improving an arrangement structure of each of the second cyclone collector.
  • a multi cyclone collector includes a first cyclone collector for drawing in outside air and collecting dust firstly; a second cyclone collector provided in a non circular shape arrangement along an outer circumference of the first cyclone collector so as to collect minute dust contained in air from which dust are separated by the first cyclone collector firstly; a collecting container for collecting minute dust separated from air by the second cyclone collector; and a case for accommodating the first and second cyclone collectors.
  • the case is formed in a polygonal shape having at least two edges, and the plurality of second cyclone collectors is disposed in the polygonal shape along an inner wall of the case.
  • the collecting container is formed in a non circular shape same as a non circular arrangement of each of the plurality of second cyclone collectors when seen from a plain view.
  • a multi cyclone collector in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention has an improved arrangement structure of each of second cyclone collector when seen from a plain view such that number of the second cyclone collector is increased and thus collecting efficiency is increased as much as the increased number of the second cyclone collector.
  • the collecting container is formed in a polygonal shape having at least two edges and thus a collecting space is increased as much as the number of the edges.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a perspective view showing a conventional multi cyclone collector
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a longitudinal section view showing an assembled state of the conventional multi cyclone collector
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a perspective view showing a multi cyclone collector in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a cross section view showing an arrangement of a first embodiment of the second cyclone collector in the multi cyclone collector in accordance with the embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a cross section view showing an arrangement of a second embodiment of the second cyclone collector in the multi cyclone collector in accordance with the embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 illustrate a multi cyclone collector in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the multi cyclone collector in accordance with the embodiment of the present invention includes a first cyclone collector 100 , a plurality of second cyclone collectors 300 , a collecting container 400 , and a case 500 .
  • the first cyclone collector 100 is configured to suck up outside air, to separate dust from the outside air firstly, and to collect the dust.
  • the plurality of second cyclone collectors 300 is configured to separate minute dust from air secondly, the air from which dust are separated by the first cyclone collector 100 firstly, and then to collect the separated dust.
  • the plurality of second cyclone collectors 300 is provided at a circumference of the first cyclone collector 100 .
  • the collecting container 400 is a can for collecting minute dust separated from air by each of the plurality of second cyclone collectors 300 .
  • the case 500 forms an exterior of the multi cyclone collector.
  • the case 500 is formed to accommodate the first cyclone collector 100 , the plurality of second cyclone collectors 300 , and the collecting container 400 , and to have at least one edge portion.
  • the case 500 is desirably formed in a polygonal shape having at least two edges.
  • the case 500 in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention is a polygon having two edges.
  • the case 500 has two edges at a rear side thereof, and formed in a circular shape, the rear side being opposite to a side through which outside air is flowed in.
  • shapes of the first cyclone collector 100 and each of the plurality of second cyclone collectors 300 are respectively same as those shapes of conventional first and second cyclone collectors 100 and 300 .
  • the first cyclone collector 100 includes a first inlet 110 for flowing outside air, a first body 120 , and a first outlet 140 for discharging air from which dust are separated firstly.
  • Each of the second cyclone collectors 300 includes a second inlet 310 for flowing air discharged through the first outlet 140 , a second body 320 , and a second outlet 340 for discharging air from which dust are separated secondly.
  • the second cyclone collector 300 is smaller than the first cyclone collector 100 , and is larger in number.
  • Each of the second cyclone collector 300 is disposed in a non circular shape along an outer circumference of the first cyclone collector 100 .
  • a part of the second cyclone collector 300 is desirably disposed in a circular shape along the outer circumference of the first cyclone collector 100 , and the other part is desirably disposed at two edges of the case 500 so as to be formed in a non circular shape as a whole.
  • a empty space generated when each of the second cyclone collector 300 is disposed is controlled to be positioned at two edges of the case 500 , and an additional second cyclone collector 300 is provided at a corresponding edge portion so as to maximize the number of the second cyclone collector 300 .
  • each of the second cyclone collector 300 may be regularly disposed along the whole inner wall except any one portion of the case 500 .
  • the one portion is a portion through which outside air is flown into the first cyclone collector 100 , which may be a whole surface or a partial portion of one surface of the case 500 .
  • Each of the second cyclone collector is desirably disposed corresponding to the shape of the case 500 without having the one surface that is the surface having the first inlet 110 positioned thereon for flowing outside air into the first cyclone collector 100 .
  • the portion through which outside air is flowed into the first cyclone collector 100 , and which has the first inlet 110 is formed on a surface except one edge portion among each portion of the case 500 .
  • the structure is for minimizing an airflow channel by minimizing a length of the first inlet 110 because when the airflow channel is reduced in size, suction efficiency is increased, and thus collecting efficiency is increased.
  • the collecting container 400 is provided along a lower part of each of the second body 320 of each of the second cyclone collector 300 , and desirably formed in a non circular shape from a plain view, the non circular shape same as the non circular shape arrangement of each of the second cyclone collector 300 , so as to obtain a maximum collecting space by forming the shape of the collecting container 400 according to the shape of an inner wall of the case 500 .
  • the collecting container 400 is desirably formed in a pipe form, an inside of which being communicated as a whole, so as to collect minute dust all together, the minute dust separated from air by each of the second cyclone collector 300 .
  • outside polluted air flowed in through the first inlet 110 is sucked up along a tangential direction of a first body 120 , and circulated along an inner wall of the first body 120 .
  • dusts are separated from air by centrifugal force.
  • air including minute dust and discharged from the first cyclone collector 100 is sequentially passed a buffering chamber 560 and a second inlet 310 and flowed into a second body 320 including each of the cyclone collectors 300 .
  • minute dust are separated once again in a plurality of second cyclone collectors 300 , and purified air is discharged through a second outlet 340 , a discharging chamber 520 , and a discharging pipe 540 to an outside thereof.
  • Minute dust circulated in the second body 320 of the second cyclone collector 300 is fallen to a lower part of the second body 320 and then collected in the collecting container 400 provided at a lower part of each of the plurality of the second cyclone collectors 300 .
  • the multi cyclone collector in accordance with the present invention is capable of being installed in a canister type vacuum cleaner and in a perpendicular type cleaner.
  • a multi cyclone collector in accordance with the present invention is available for an industrial use because of the following reasons.
  • a multi cyclone collector includes a plurality of second cyclone collectors each with an improved arrangement such that number of the second cyclone collector is increased. Accordingly, efficiency of collecting minute dust is increased as much as the number of the second cyclone collector.
  • a collecting container is formed in a many sided shape having at least two edges and thus a collecting space is increased as much as the number of the edges.

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